RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
二、這個世界並不在乎你的自尊，只在乎你做出來的成績，然後再去強調你的感受。

RULE 3
You will NOT make $40 thousand a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
三、你不會一離開學校，就有百萬年薪、你不會馬上就是，擁有公司配屬手機的副總裁，
二者你都必須靠努力賺來。

RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
四、如果你覺得你的老闆很兇，等你做了老闆就知道，老闆是沒有工作任期保障的。

RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger-flipping - they called it opportunity.
五、在速食店打工並不可恥，你的祖父母對煎漢堡，有不同的看法：機 會。

RULE 6
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault so don't whine about your mistakes; learn from them.
六、如果你一事無成，不是你父母的錯，所以不要對自己犯的錯發牢騷，從錯誤中去學習。

RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rainforest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
七、在你出生前，你的父母並不像現在這般無趣，他們變成這樣，是因為忙著付你的開銷、洗你的衣服、聽你吹噓你有多了不起。所以，在你拯救被父母這代人破壞的熱帶雨前，先整理一下自己的房間吧。

RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
八、在學校裡可能有贏家輸家，在人生中卻還言之過早。
學校會不斷給你機會找到正確答案，真實人生中卻完全不是這麼回事。

RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
九、人生沒有寒暑假，人生不是學期制，人生沒有寒暑假，沒有哪個雇主有興趣幫你尋找自我。
請用自己的時間來做這件事吧。

RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
十、電視上演的並非真實人生。真實人生中每人都要離開咖啡館去上班。

RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
十一、對書呆子好一點，你未來很可能就為其中一個工作。